Brandon Jacobs On The Longest Yard

Brandon Jacobs shared the following in his own words about 4th and short, I thought it was a particularly good summation of the longest yard to get in football:

“You have everybody up in there, everybody knows you’re getting the ball, everybody’s gunning at you, you got the big guys creating a mess on the ground so you got nowhere to run. It’s a lot harder than a lot of people think. A lot of people always say ‘You suck, you can’t get make 1 yard?’ I hear that all the time. It’s the hardest yard out there. There’s 100 yards out there, but making one of ‘em is the hardest thing to do when people know you’re getting the ball and they’re gunning for you.’’